Trick or Treat in the land of Poverty

For the past few years, we've handed out candy on halloween. I've always been annoyed at all the kids that just show up for candy and stick their hands out. No costume, no bag, no "trick or treat". I always just thought it was so ghettooooo. This year, though, it was just...sad. Most of these people are living in poverty, and it makes me wonder. What if they couldn't afford costumes? What if their parents just didn't care enough to get them a costume? Better yet, where are all the parents? Something's got to be done for this place. Halloween and costumeless kids aside, this place is so hopeless. I don't mean there is no hope for it, I mean there is no hope in it. These kids are all thugs, and they're like twelve years old. And you know what? If these kids keep growing up around the drug dealers and the thugs, it's all they'll know. The system sucks. I'd love to take some of these younger kids from the government housing crap we've got in this neighborhood and plop them in the middle of Great Bridge. Let the poor kids go to Hickory High School. Let them learn to play field hockey or something instead of fire a gun.